Japan Region (Little League Baseball World Series)

LLWS qualification Japan region
formerly Far East region (1962–2000)
formerly Asia (2001–2006)

Current season	LLWS qualification 2018
sport	baseball
League foundation	2007
Teams	16
Country countries	Japan
Title holder	Kawaguchi, Saitama , Japan
Record champions	Tokyo Prefecture (29)
Website	Japan Little (jap.)
Qualification too	Little League World Series 2018

The Japan region is one of the eight international regions that send participants to the Little League Baseball World Series , the largest youth baseball tournament. The Japan region has been taking part in this tournament since 1962, back then under the name Far East Region . When the field of participants doubled in 2001, the Far East region was divided into the Asia and Pacific regions. Japan played in the Asian group. In 2007 the groups were reunited to form the Asia-Pacific group and Japan became a separate region.

Participating teams

For the qualification, Japan is divided into 12 districts which contain a different number of prefectures. The four largest districts in terms of number of leagues send two teams to the Japanese Championships, the others send one team each.

District	Prefectures	Big cities	Number of teams
Hokkaidō ( 北海道 )	Hokkaidō	Sapporo	1
Tōhoku ( 東北 )	Akita Aomori Fukushima Iwate Miyagi Yamagata	Sendai	2
Shin'etsu ( 信 越 地方 )	Niigata Nagano Yamanashi	Niigata , Nagano	1
Higashi-Kantō ( 東 関 東 )	Chiba Ibaraki	Chiba , Funabashi , Ichikawa	1
Kita-Kantō ( 北 関 東 )	Gunma Tochigi Saitama	Kawaguchi	2
Tokyo ( 東京 )	Tokyo	Tokyo	2
Kanagawa ( 神奈川 県 )	Kanagawa	Yokohama	1
Tōkai ( 東海 地方 )	Aichi Fukui Gifu Ishikawa Shizuoka Toyama	Nagoya , Hamamatsu , Shizuoka	2
Kansai ( 関 西 )	Hyōgo Kyōto Mie Nara Osaka Shiga Wakayama	Osaka , Kyoto , Kobe , Nara	2
Chūgoku ( 中国 )	Hiroshima Okayama Shimane Tottori Yamaguchi	Hiroshima , Okayama	1
Shikoku ( 四 国 )	Ehime Kagawa Kōchi Tokushima	Matsuyama	1
Kyushu ( 九州 )	Fukuoka Kagoshima Kumamoto Miyazaki Nagasaki Ōita Okinawa Saga	Fukuoka	1

Japanese championships

year	master	city	Second	city	LLWS region	Result to LLWS
1961	Misawa	Aomori			Pacific	not qualified
1962	Kunitachi LL	Kunitachi			far East	6th place
1963	Gyokusen LL	Tokyo			far East	task
1964	Tachikawa City LL	Tokyo			far East	4th Place
1965	Arakawa LL	Tokyo			far East	6th place
1966	Wakayama LL	Wakayama			far East	4th Place
Japanese championships
1967	West Tokyo	Tokyo	Osaka Nishi	Osaka	far East	World Champion
1968	Wakayama	Wakayama	Little Hawks	?	far East	World Champion
1969	Chofu	Chofu	Little Hawks	?	far East	not qualified
1970	Wakayama	Wakayama	Chofu	Chofu	far East	not qualified
1971	Chofu	Chofu	Wakayama	Wakayama	far East	not qualified
1972	Chofu	Chofu	Izumi Otsu	Ōtsu	far East	not qualified
1973	Chofu	Chofu	Sendai Minami	Sendai	far East	not qualified
1974	Chofu	Chofu	Nerima	Tokyo	far East	not qualified
1975	Chofu	Chofu	Tokyo Machida	Tokyo	far East	Int. Teams excluded
1976	Funabashi	Funabashi	Coma	Tokyo	far East	World Champion
1977	Chofu	Chofu	Higashi Osaka	Osaka	far East	not qualified
1978	Amagasaki Kita	Amagasaki	Suginami	Tokyo	far East	not qualified
1979	Settsu	Settsu	Sendai Chuo	Sendai	far East	not qualified
1980	Suginami	Tokyo	Wakayama	Wakayama	far East	not qualified
1981	Motomaki Chuo	Chuo	Nakano Higashi	Tokyo	far East	not qualified
1982	Chofu	Chofu	Kohhoku	?	far East	not qualified
1983	Osaka Yodogawa	Osaka	Asahi	?	far East	3rd place
1984	Taisho	Osaka	Hamamatsu	Hamamatsu	far East	not qualified
1985	Hoya	Tokyo	Adachi Kita	Tokyo	far East	not qualified
1986	Tokorozawa	Tokorozawa	Ehime Nishi	?	far East	not qualified
1987	Chofu	Chofu	Aichi Iwakura	Iwakura	far East	not qualified
1988	Osaka Higashi	Osaka	Nagoya Higashi	Nagoya	far East	not qualified
1989	Settsu	Settsu	Chofu	Chofu	far East	not qualified
1990	Hadano	Hadano	Takaishi	Takaishi	far East	not qualified
1991	Omiya	Omiya	Takatsuki	Takatsuki	far East	not qualified
1992	Minato	Tokyo	Hasuda	Hasuda	far East	not qualified
1993	Sumida	Tokyo	Kumamoto Chuo	Chūō	far East	not qualified
1994	Edogawa Minami	Tokyo	Seya	Yokohama	far East	not qualified
1995	Izumisano	Izumisano	Midori Chuo	Kanagawa	far East	not qualified
1996	Matsusaka	Matsusaka	Hiratsuka	Hiratsuka	far East	not qualified
1997	Seya	Yokohama	Takarazuka	Takarazuka	far East	3rd place
1998	Kashima	Kashima	Seya	Yokohama	far East	2nd place
1999	Hirakata	Hirakata	Hyogo Harima	Harima	far East	World Champion
2000	Musashi Fuchu	Tokyo	Kodaira	Kodaira	far East	3rd place
2001	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Nagoya day care center	Nagoya	Asia	World Champion
2002	Sendai Higashi	Sendai	Takarazuka	Takarazuka	Asia	2nd place
2003	Musashi Fuchu	Tokyo	Chofu	Chofu	Asia	World Champion
2004	Sendai Higashi	Sendai	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Asia	not qualified
2005	Chiba City	Chiba	Gifu Tohno	Gifu	Asia	4th Place
2006	Kawaguchi	Kawaguchi	Musashi Fuchu	Tokyo	Asia	2nd place
2007	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Hiratsuka	Hiratsuka	Japan	2nd place
2008	Edogawa Minami	Tokyo	Matsusaka	Matsusaka	Japan	3rd place
2009	Chiba City	Chiba	Izumisano	Izumisano	Japan	Quarter finals
2010	Edogawa Minami	Tokyo	Hirosaki Aomori	Hirosaki	Japan	World Champion
2011	Hamamatsu Minami	Hamamatsu	Seya	Yokohama	Japan	2nd place
2012	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Matsusaka	Matsusaka	Japan	World Champion
2013	Musashi Fuchu	Tokyo	Miyagino	Sendai	Japan	World Champion
2014	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Musashi Fuchu	Toyonaka	Japan	3rd place
2015	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Hachioji	Toyonaka	Japan	World Champion
2016	Chofu	Tokyo	Sendai Higashi	Sendai	Japan	Round 1
2017	Tokyo Kitasuna	Tokyo	Chiba City	Chiba	Japan	World Champion
2018	Kawaguchi	Kawaguchi	Nagasaki Minami	Nagasaki	Japan	3rd place

Results at the Little League World Series by prefectures

prefecture	Number of championships	Number of participations in world championships	Number of titles at world championships	WL to the LLWS	%
Tokyo	29	16	8th	56-11	.836
Osaka	7th	2	1	6–2	.750
Chiba	3	3	1	9-4	.692
Wakayama	3	2	1	5–1	.833
Saitama	3	2	0	10-2	.833
Kanagawa	3	1	0	2–2	.500
Miyagi	2	1	0	5–1	.833
Shizuoka	2	1	0	4-2	.667
Ibaraki	1	1	0	3–2	.600
Hyogo	1	0	0	0-0	-
Mie	1	0	0	0-0	-
Total	56	21st	11	94-26	.783

Status after the Little League World Series 2018

Individual evidence

• Results Japan Regional Tournaments
• Japan Little